PostSecret: the book

If you’re not a regular reader of PostSecret, you are missing out.  I found this like a year or so ago, and have been a rabid fan ever since.  The artistic bent of the cards, the open sharing of deep personal issues...it is truly a great experiment.  I was wondering just where the new cards were these past few weeks...now we know.  There’s a book coming out soon.  I already pre-ordered mine.  Makes a great gift!  Call now.  Operators are standing by.

The downside?  They’ve removed the archives of past cards from the site.  I hope once the book settles they’ll return the archives.  There are some new ones up this week though.

Posted by JimK at 11:27 PM on November 19, 2005
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Woot, woot, woot!

You know what?  I love Woot.  What a great business model...take overstocked and discontinued stuff that is still perfectly good, buy it at ridiculous discounts, and sell one item each day until you empty your warehouse of that thing.  I imagine on the back end, it makes it a lot easier to run your business.  Each day you’re only processing orders for one thing, shipping one thing, etc.

Donna says that everything at Woot is hot.  She says that this is what happens to all that stuff the mafia hijacks from trucks.  I think she thinks this is the 40s.  :)

Anyone else buy stuff from Woot?

Posted by JimK at 11:53 PM on November 17, 2005
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A monster deal

OK, these are expensive, but they are the best earbuds on the market for under a thousand dollars.  The quality is AMAZING.  I refuse to use anything else unless absolutely necessary.  They are the same model as the ones that I won awhile back.  And this is the best price I have ever seen for them.  It’s gotta be close to cost.

Shure E5c Sound Isolating Earphones for $269.99.  You will not beat that price, and at that price you cannot find anything that sounds as good, I promise you that.

Posted by JimK at 05:19 PM on July 14, 2005
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Excellent bargains for your ears

If you’re looking for good earbuds for a portable music player and you want a bargain, check these out.

Buy.com, today only, has the Sony MDR-EX71SL’s for just $27.99.  I own these, and they are hands-down the best you’ll find under $50.  A bit bass-heavy, however I found that with the right EQ setting on my iPod, that went away.  Plus there are mods you can do to further improve the sound and make them sound like they cost twice the price, if you are so inclined.* I recommend these to anyone looking to replace the crappy buds that usually come with every CD player, Walkman and MP3 player.

Another bargain that is hard to pass up if you have an iPod mini is from PCMicroStore.  The Kroo mini iPod Cool White Silicone Skin case...decent protection from scratches, a neutral color and just $4.99.  You’d pay more than that in shipping from anywhere else.

I wasn’t really going to get a case for my mini since I plan to use it mostly in the waterproof case when I’m excercising in the pool, but for five bucks, I may as well.  I am using the mini more than the full-sized ipod in the car, this may come in handy there.  My car is much like my desk: full of crap and sharp things designed to scratch anything that can be scratched.

BTW, you can get it shipped via US mail for a buck.  How cheap is that?

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* The mods are actually very simple.  There are three tiny air holes on the back of the buds in the silver part.  If you cover them with a tiny piece of tape (I used a tiny piece of aluminum tape, it looks like it is part of the design), then less air is moved by the tiny drivers, thus lessening the bass response.  One other mod that allows the midrange to reach your ears more easily is to remove the little rubber tips.  You’ll see a little paper circle that covers the hole where the music comes out.  Use a needle and poke a hole in the center.  work it around until the hole is barely big enough to put the tip of a Bic pen in.  That usually satisfies most.  I removed the circle entirely on mine.  They sound quite amazing for the price.

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Posted by JimK at 12:54 PM on May 15, 2005
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Looking out for you

Geek shopping alert!

If you have broadband and a laptop, or two computers or more in your home and you haven’t gone wireless, then this is the deal for you from Tiger Direct.

1st: the D-LinkAir DI-514 Wireless Router, free after rebate.  Expires on 04/18/2005 (Midnight E.S.T.).  Could be a great wireless access point or an expansion for an already existing network, maybe stretch that wireless out into the back yard this summer…

Next you need cards.  How about the D-Link 11MBps 802.11b Wireless LAN Adapter, $14.99 for a laptop, or the Trendnet TEW-228PI 11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Adapter, $9.99 for a desktop.

It;s all 802.11b, the most stable albeit slowest of the WiFi flavors, but odds are your cable or DSL connection is half to a third what 802.11b can do, so what’s the diff?  It’s wireless on the super cheap!

Posted by JimK at 06:59 PM on April 15, 2005
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Christmas shopping assistance 4

If you are in the market for a great DVD burner, you should take a look at this. Covers all the formats and if the past is any marker, the Sony DRU series drives are ultra high quality.

Specifications:
Write Speed:16X DVD+R, 4X DVD+RW, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD-RW, 48X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 2.4X DVD+R DL
Read Speed: 48X CD-ROM, 16X DVD-ROM
Interface: ATAPI / E-IDE
Buffer: 2 MB
Random access time: 130 ms (CD-ROM), 160 ms (DVD-ROM)
OS Support: Windows 2000/ XP Home / XP Pro
Features: Buffer Underrun Proof technology

$79.99. I paid $200 plus for my DRU510A “back in the day.” That’s a tech owwie.  :)

Posted by JimK at 07:40 PM on December 14, 2004
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Christmas shopping assistance 3

You may already know that we have love in our hearts over at Moorewatch for Overstock.com, thanks to the amazing efforts they went to in order to get copies of FahrenHYPE 9/11 in the hands of deployed troops.  Before I move on, let me just re-thank them, and most of all let me thank Paratrooper, who put the whole thing together by himself and barely acknowledged his pivotal role.

Anyway, I’m posting this cool deal for a few reasons.  One, Overstock rules and they deserve your business.  Two, the small referral fee we’ll get helps to keep the server that hosts this site, Moorewatch, Paratrooper, Lee at Right Thinking (and others) running and you don’t have to do anything except shop, and three, this is one hell of a deal.

I’m talking about the
Family Classics 50 DVD Movie Megapack.  Check out some of the classics you get:

Enjoy endless hours of family fun with fifty full length classic movies digitally re-mastered on 12 DVDs. Step back in time with these cinema classics including:

Til Clouds Roll By: Judy Garland / The Medicine Man: Jack Benny / Life with Father: William Powell / The Three Stooges Festival / Jack and the Beanstalk: Abbott Costello / Lets Get Tough: The East Side Kids / The Last Time I Saw Paris: Elizabeth Taylor / Jane Eyre: Virginia Bruce / A Star is Born: Janet Gaynor / The Racketeer: Carole Lombard / The Jungle Book: Sabu / Gullivers Travels (Animated): Jessica Dragonette / The General: Buster Keaton / The Kid: Charlie Chaplin / Long John Silver: Robert Newton / The Scarlet Letter: Colleen Moore / The Inspector General: Danny Kaye / The Paleface: Buster Keaton / That Gang of Mine: The East Side Kids / Son of Monte Cristo: Louis Hayward / Captain Kidd: Charles Laughton / The Time of Your Life: James Cagney / A Farewell to Arms: Gary Cooper / The Scarlet Pimpernel: Leslie Howard / The Black Pirate: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. / Little Lord Fauntelroy: Mickey Rooney / The Eagle: Rudolph Valentino / The Great Dan Patch: Dennis OKeefe / My Dear Secretary: Kirk Douglas / Royal Wedding: Fred Astaire / At War with the Army: Jerry Lewis / Our Town: William Holden / The Little Princess: Shirley Temple / My Favorite Brunette: Bob Hope / The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Van Johnson / The Big Trees: Kirk Douglas / Beyond Tomorrow: Harry Carey / The Flying Scotsman: Ray Milland / Flying Deuces: Laurel Hardy / The Blacksmith: Buster Keaton / Africa Screams: Abbott and Costello / The Magic Sword: Basil Rathbone / Fathers Little Dividend: Spencer Tracy / Utopia: Laurel Hardy / The BigThe Big Chance: Mickey Roone / Kid Dynamite: The East Side Kids / The Iron Mask: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. / The Lost World: Wallace Beery W C Fields Festival: WC Fields / The Road to Hollywood: Bing Crosby

Even if half of those movies end up stinkers in your opinion, this is a deal worth getting.  If you’re a movie buff, it’s a heck of a way to build up your collection.  If you have a family to entertain, these are good films in front of which you can plop the whole family.  The deal is $24.99 and $1.40 for shipping.

That page also has other megapacks, like Westerns and Sci-Fi.  All for great prices.  Thus endeth the commercial.  Go in peace to shop and save a buck.  :)

Posted by JimK at 02:53 PM on December 13, 2004
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Christmas shopping assistance 2

This is a good deal if you are in the market for a reasonably priced replacement for your MP3 or portable CD player’s crappy headphones.  Apple and everyone else provides the lowest quality earbuds they can to reduce costs.  These Shure E2Cs are not the best in the Shure line, but they might be the best performance for the price.  You will hear much more detail in your music than you do using the buds that come with any player.

Posted by JimK at 02:08 PM on December 13, 2004
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Christmas shopping assistance

I’m looking out for you with rock bottom low, low prices, guaranteed.

Anyone who is looking for a good and inexpensive gift, check out this sale at DVD Empire.  $14.99 for selected first-season boxed sets on DVD.  Simpsons, Buffy, Dark Angel, Millenium, Futurama, there is some good stuff in there!

No kickbacks to me, I’m just pointing out a good sale.  Enjoy!

Posted by JimK at 02:00 PM on December 08, 2004
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